Andrew Lucius
Assistant Professor, Director of Music and Worship Leadership
Department(s)
MusicCredentials
PhD - Theology and Worship (2025), Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Dissertation: "Hast Thou, My Soul, They Saviour View'd?": Eucharistic Piety in the Hymns of Joseph Stennett
MDiv - Worship Leadership (2013), The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
BA - Music (2008), The University of Southern Mississippi
About Andrew Lucius
Dr. Andrew Lucius has served as Assistant Professor and Director of Music and Worship Leadership at Charleston Southern University since 2023. His teaching focuses on the use of music in the context of the local church, specifically how music functions as a tool of spiritual formation.
In his recent dissertation (2025) Dr. Lucius seeks to discern the eucharistic piety of early Particular Baptists through the hymn of Joseph Stennett. In addition to his dissertation, his research interests include early Christian liturgy, Baptist hymnody, liturgical theology, and biblical spirituality.
Before coming to Charleston Southern, Dr. Lucius served in vocational ministry for over a decade at churches in Kentucky and Georgia. He and his family remain actively connected to the local church. They currently serve in a variety of ways at Friendship Baptist Church.
"I want to press my students towards excellence in the classroom by exposing them to advanced theological and musical concepts, assigning coursework that requires the synthesizing of course material, and by having high expectation that they will produce great work! Yet, what I want my students to know more than anything else is that I am for them and that their personal development matters so much more to me than their performance in the classroom. It is my goal that my students leave more virtuous, Christ-like people than when they first entered my classroom."
Signature Experiences
Evangelical Theological Society
The North American Patristics Society
Society for Christian Scholarship in Music
Recent Scholarly Work & Publications
Review of John Onwuchekwa, Prayer: How Praying Together Shapes the Church. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2018. The Center for Preaching and Pastoral Leadership, October 8, 2020.
“The Search for Musical Identity: The Journey of the Southern Baptist Convention to Establish Denominational Standards in Its Music Practices (1938-1944),” presented at the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music (February 28, 2021)
“Worship and Welfare: A Case for the Formation of Social Ethics in the Lord’s Supper,” presented at the Evangelical Theological Society (November 18, 2021)
“Rooted and Renewed: Retrieving Eucharistic Prayers for Evangelical Baptist Worship,” presented at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary fall Colloquium (September 7, 2022)
Review of Noel A. Snyder, Sermons that Sing: Music and the Practice of Preaching. Westmont, IL: IVP Academic, 2021. Southeastern Theological Review, Vol. 47, No. 3, December 2022.
Review of Rory Noland, Transforming Worship: Planning and Leading Sunday Services as If Spiritual Formation Mattered. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2021. Themelios, 14.1 Spring 2023.